Happy Rapture Day!

Good Face

I’m kind of becoming obsessed with Adele’s face after seeing her photo spread in Out magazine. I don’t know if it’s just the way they style her make-up or her natural beauty and ability to give good face in photographs, but she is gorgeous.

I want someone to do my make-up like this.

30 Days of Music. Day 9: A Song That You Can Dance To

Not much to say about this one, just that it always gets me moving.

Back In Time

Today I had to run out to Watertown, MN to take care of some things for my father. I hadn't been out there since high school - and even in high school I didn't hang out there very often, but I was/am friends with a lot of people from there. It was weird driving those roads for the first time in probably 12 years. The swervy curviness of County 10 and how it is basically unchanged - not counting a few new housing developments and a roundabout where it meets Highway 7. A roundabout! Why did they decide a roundabout was the best option for that intersection?

There's another roundabout (seriously, why?) as you enter Watertown. As I headed down the hill into "downtown" this flood of memories came back. But they weren't really memories - more feelings, sensations, vibes. I can't even tell you if they were good or bad. I just hadn't laid eyes on that part of my youth in so long. It was all very strange.

Life seems to be pointing me in the direction of my past quite often lately. I find myself confronted with a lot of different memories/vibes all the time now. Whether it's people I run into/reconnect with, visits out to the hometown, family I haven't seen in ages, just random things I'm being forced to think about. I seem to be coming back full circle. I'm trying to figure out if that's good or bad.

Me at my high school prom.

For The Love Of Leggings

I’m addicted to leggings. I would wear them everyday if I had enough pairs. Actually, I pretty much wear them 6 out of 7 days. I don’t wear them in the Lindsay Lohan style of leggings and just a t-shirt as seen below:

Although, I wish I could wear that outfit.

But, I usually pair them with a skirt or dress, boots or ballerina flats. I love them so much that I actually ventured into the land of jeggings. I’ve worn them a couple of times, but they are really hard to pull off when you are not someone with toothpick legs.

Where am I going with this? I was off getting coffee this morning in my leggings and plaid dress with ballerina flats and I passed by a rather large, older woman in stretch pants and a t-shirt and I looked at her and I looked at my outfit and I thought, really, what’s the difference? Why are her pants stretch pants and mine leggings? In 20 years will I still be wearing my leggings but calling them stretch pants?

One of the main reasons I love them so much is the comfort factor. It’s like wearing pajamas. I can move easily. There are no restrictions. There is less fretting over what to wear when I can always just throw on some leggings with a dress or skirt and a t-shirt. They offer a simplicity to my life, which recently, has become complicated and a bit overwhelming.

And now they make them in so many different styles and colors, it’s opened up a whole new world of fashion for me.

But, as I become an older woman and my hips and waist expand - as they inevitably will – will I become one of those women I see lumbering through downtown in her stretch pants and over-sized t-shirt still happily discussing the comfort and ease my now stretch pants provide? Will my love of my leggings make this transition happen with an ease I am uncomfortable with since I am not ever dealing with the awful realization of struggling to put on a pair of jeans that no longer button?

I love my leggings, as I’ve said. I like how they look. I like how the feel. I like how easy they are.

I’ve never been a fashionista and have always found it frustrating trying to keep up with trends. But, eventually, these leggings will become so outdated that I will look the fool wandering around in them. But, what if there’s no going back? What if this is my uniform for life? What if one day I wake up and my leggings are now stretch pants?

This concerns me.

30 Days of Music. Day 8: A Song You Know All Of The Words To

This is a strange category because if I know and like a song, I know all of the words. But, I can’t really just say “all of them”, so I have to pick one.

Friday night I was relaxing at the kitchen table, listening to 89.3 The Current finish up their member drive and celebrating by playing some ridiculous songs. Amongst the ridiculousness, they played “The Humpty Dance” by Digital Underground and I know all of the words to this song.

When this song comes on, I have to sing along. Every terrible misogynistic word. It’s like that episode of South Park where Cartman can’t hear the beginning of “Come Sail Away” without having to finish the whole thing.

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30 Days of Music. Day 7: A Song That Reminds You Of A Certain Event

I am behind on this one. The whole Blogger being down thing really halted any posting momentum I had. But, it's back!

I also had a hard time with this "day". I can think of a ton of songs that remind me of people and places, but I feel like an event needs to be a big thing, like a wedding or funeral or birthday or something.

But, after thinking about it for a while, I thought of this song:

I covered this song the first time I performed by myself on stage at an open mic night. I love Anais. I love this song. And now when I hear it I always remember my first time singing.

Me, singing and playing guitar on stage for the first time at O'Donovans open mic night.